Dingley v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1989
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Basket v. Hassell · Knowles v. Slocum · Jackson v. Lamar · Meyers v. Albert · Phinney v. State ex rel. Stratton
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The delivery must be such as will divest the donor of the present control and dominion over the property absolutely and irrevocably and confer upon the donee the dominion and control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re McCoy's Estate“'all of the property is in the deposit box in your name, you have the key and it is yours.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.